Uterine carcinosarcoma arising from an endometrial polyp: Assessment by 3-dimensional power Doppler angiography and positron emission tomography/computed tomography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 675-678

  Nieves Lugo, Luis ^a   Blanch, Ricardo ^a   Abad, Maria ^a   Lilue, Mariella ^a   Gómez, Carolina ^a   Colmenter, Luis ^b   Alcázar, Juan Luis ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

^b Centro Diagnóstico Docente las Mercedes   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARCINOGENS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

CARCINOSARCOMA; GLANDULAR; POWER DOPPLER ANGIOGRAPHY; UTERINE;

ONCOLOGY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIXED MULLERIAN TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL POWER DOPPLER ANGIOGRAPHY; UTERUS CARCINOMA; UTERUS CARCINOSARCOMA; UTERUS SARCOMA;

EID: 33646442214     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.5.675     Document Type: Article

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